Wednesday, September 21, 2005
New book: Chilean Marxist Salvador Allende was a KGB Agent
The liberals in America and around the world hail Chilean dictator and Marxist psycho Salvador Allende as the model of freedom and hope against capitalism in South America, the same way they currently embrace Venezuelan looney Hugo Chavez.
However, a new book shows that the lovely Salvador Allende was a KGB agent, confirmed by documents in Russian archives.
Liberalism's response? Nothing yet - but one can bet that the book will be condemned as some right-wing smear.
How 'weak' Allende was left out in the cold by the KGB
President Nixon aided in Allende's overthrow in 1973, bringing to power General Augusto Pinochet, who then arrested and shot thousands of Communists and liberals.
Pinochet was and is a hero, a man who fought the Marxist menace. And that menace, led by Allende, was directed directly from Moscow. Many liberals who sided with Allende sympathized with Moscow's goal of taking over the world.
The liberals in America and around the world hail Chilean dictator and Marxist psycho Salvador Allende as the model of freedom and hope against capitalism in South America, the same way they currently embrace Venezuelan looney Hugo Chavez.
However, a new book shows that the lovely Salvador Allende was a KGB agent, confirmed by documents in Russian archives.
Liberalism's response? Nothing yet - but one can bet that the book will be condemned as some right-wing smear.
How 'weak' Allende was left out in the cold by the KGB
BY FAR the most important of the KGB's contacts in South America was Salvador Allende Gossens (codenamed Leader by the KGB), whose election as President of Chile in 1970 was hailed as “a revolutionary blow to the imperialist system in Latin America”.
Allende was the first Marxist anywhere in the world to win power through the ballot box. He was unlike any stereotype of a Marxist leader. During his visits to Havana in the 1960s, he had been privately mocked by Castro's entourage for his aristocratic tastes: fine wines, expensive objets d’art, well-cut suits and elegantly dressed women. Allende was also a womaniser. Gabriel García Márquez described him as “a gallant with a touch of the old school about him, perfumed notes and furtive rendezvous”.
President Nixon aided in Allende's overthrow in 1973, bringing to power General Augusto Pinochet, who then arrested and shot thousands of Communists and liberals.
Pinochet was and is a hero, a man who fought the Marxist menace. And that menace, led by Allende, was directed directly from Moscow. Many liberals who sided with Allende sympathized with Moscow's goal of taking over the world.
